Even had it not been announced on Coronation Day it would have made world headlines, but in Britain the linking of the two events was regarded as almost an omen, ordained by the Almighty as a special blessing for the dawn of a New Elizabethan Age.
It's chilling when she slowly intones "Stand by the roadside / facing the headlights / wait for the break of dawn," on her adaptation of "Blessed Instant," by the Norwegian jazz singer Sidsel Endresen.
Now it is beginning to dawn on environmentalists that biofuels are a mixed blessing.
A new era of Gomez has dawned, and she's blessed us with an accompanying music video that signals her artistic and aesthetic growth.
You are the thousands of elephants I sometimes bring into the room and try to assiduously ignore while I create... and as I type this out it dawns on me what a challenge and a blessing this pachydermal infestation is..
As dawn approaches, the angel strikes Jacob's thigh, and in response Jacob demands a blessing.
Camping alone or leaving her house at dawn to stalk muskrats, she lived like a hermit, of sorts -- one blessed with splendiferous visions.
This vast canvas from the dawn of the Baroque — formally, the "Vespro Della Beata Vergine" ("Vespers of the Blessed Virgin") — offers such a rich ground for competing scholarly views and conjecture that performances differ radically, one shedding light on another.
In Mumbai, the print of his film was driven at dawn to a temple by horse-drawn carriage in order for it to be blessed.
But the line has weight, too, because you can sense Josh's dawning awareness that his funkification, at Jamie's hands, may be less of a blessing than a drag.
